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Skills Pointer

Reduce achievement gaps and help students excel with Skills Pointer

A powerful tool for both enrichment and remediation, Skills Pointer® complements existing curriculum programs. Get insights into student skills gaps along with resources to help students move forward in their learning journey.

Skills Pointer is very useful in differentiating and individualizing instruction by mapping out a course of specific topics a student needs to be taught to [come] back to grade level. Skills Pointer definitely helps us in our planning and teaching.

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Empower Educators

How will you use Skills Pointer data and resources?

Skills Pointer combines vertically adaptive iWith vertically adaptive tests, the item difficulty level moves up or down throughout the test in response to the student’s performance. If a question is answered correctly, the test dynamically selects a more challenging item; if a student misses a question, the follow-up item is easier. skills-based assessments and reports with individualized tutorials and practice activities aligned to Common Core standards.

Teachers

Use the instant feedback from Skills Pointer assessments to identify the exact skills each student needs to learn in mathematics, science, language arts, and reading.

Principals

Identify knowledge gaps by student, class, or school, and use the data to drive intervention objectives.

Educational leaders

Analyze and evaluate the written curriculum with the Skills Pointer Curriculum Gap Analysis Tool.

Measure growth to enhance instruction

Step 4

Inform instruction by accessing Skills Pointer learning resources, which are mapped to state and Common Core standards. Resources are available across all grade levels and core subjects. Use targeted activities and lesson tutorials to build the required foundational skills or provide enrichment for advanced learners.

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Next steps: Focus on building foundational skills with Skills Pointer

Recent News |

Jefferson County Public Schools (Jeffco), NWEA and MasteryConnect announced today they have entered into a partnership to provide high-quality interim assessment tools to all schools in the Golden, Colorado district.

At the 2015 ISTE Conference NWEA announced the launch of Skills Navigator, a new K-8 classroom assessment system for math, reading comprehension, vocabulary and language usage that helps teachers accomplish…

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